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Federal Court Orders Chicago-area Trader and His Company to Pay $377,000 for Forex and Commodity Fraud
Washington, D.C. – The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a consent order…
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A Houston credit repair firm was ordered by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to cease operations over allegations that the company made false claims and…
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Habitat Tuscaloosa to receive portion of $436 million donation
First word of the multimillion-dollar donation sounded too good to be true. Spoiler: It wasn’t. Certainly good, but also true. Habitat for Humanity of Tuscaloosa…
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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services COVID-19 Newsletter -March 2022 # 4 | Troutman Pepper
Like most industries today, Consumer Finance Services businesses are being significantly impacted by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Troutman Pepper has developed a dedicated COVID-19 Resource…
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‘This feels like a scam’: Third-party seller admits to stealing $1.3 million from Amazon in elaborate fake sale-and-refund fraud
It was a solid-gold scam with an iron bar ending. A third-party seller on Amazon.com has pleaded guilty to running an elaborate refund scam that ripped…
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BBB: Watch out for SAT prep scams
BBB: Watch out for SAT prep scams – Sandhills Sentinel Home /Crime/BBB: Watch out for SAT prep scams …
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Texan Accused of Credit Repair Scam
A federal court in Houston, Texas, has placed restrictions on the operator of a credit repair company who allegedly made false claims online. In an…
View More Texan Accused of Credit Repair Scam$USELESS crypto doesn’t want to be a meme coin anymore
Some people think cryptocurrency is useless—some people think it’s a meme currency, a breeding ground for scammers, and a space for pump-and-dump schemes. That’s how…
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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud – Krebs on Security
Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book “Spam Nation,” was arrested in Moscow this month…
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